Re: Artist abuse
Yes, I have had my work plagerized and it isn't a good feeling. I have also been cheated out of thousands of dollars in work that was done and received and the check never came.
I may sometimes practice to learn technique by copying another artist's work, however, I never have ever done that for profit. I do things to problem solve, then once I know how to do what I need, I make my own. It is often much more quick to draw from scratch than to try to obtain clipart on line for free and then let CorelDRAW trace it. Then there is time spent to convert it to the right color space and to eliminate lots of parts that are redundant or unnecessary. Quicker to draw in many instances. I go back and forth from DRAW to Xara, Xara italic lines are so very good, then I import it all back into DRAW for the final layout.
There are many business cards down at work and other types of printing, ordered and then never picked up. Lots of wasted man hours. I do like this forum, I talk to other people who are real human beings. Thank you for enduring my rant.
Every day's a new day, "draw" on what you've learned.
Sally M. Bode
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